133 Replies to “The Save Mickey Campaign”

  1. Indeed. Just think of how much Jamaican immigrants contribute to our culture and economy: monotonous, illiterate music that all sounds the same, filthy hairstyles, those little tricoloured Rasta doohickies.

  2. Toronto folk love their Islander, Negro Criminals, They make the place look colorful and multicultural.
    I can hear those oil pan drums pinging in the background as I write this … Ya mon … everting bees cooool doncha know! Dis Canada, free everting no jail … judges stupid, can’t make me go home neither mon hahahaha.

  3. Well, I’m not a racist so I do not have any cultural remarks to make. I do have one thing to say about this kind of campaign. CRAP!
    We don’t need this kind of stuff and we shouldn’t damn well allow it.

  4. No cultural remarks here either but I do wonder if there’s a church basement he can claim sanctuary in.

  5. Come to Canada, Socialist Haven, Welfare State from cradle to grave, known around the World. Get your feet on Canadian soil and everything is in place to look after your every need.
    Give thanks to Pierre Trudeau and his Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

  7. Why is mocking Jamaican culture “racist”? (Not that I accept the overuse of this once-powerful concept anyhow…)
    Jamaican culture stupid and ugly. You or other readers might say the same of Nascar redneck culture. So what? Oh I forgot, those people are white so its ok.
    It’s so sad that Canadian conservatives feel obliged to parrot liberal PC foolishness.

  8. “Just think of how much Jamaican immigrants contribute to our culture and economy: monotonous, illiterate music that all sounds the same, filthy hairstyles, those little tricoloured Rasta doohickies.”
    Take a tour of Toronto area “extended care facilities” (nursing homes, in old-speak).
    Count the Jamaican nurses taking care of the old folks.
    Now – you want to get rid of Jamaicans?
    Better be ready for a massive importation of skilled, caring nurses and nurses aides from… well, somewhere.
    It’s that or some euthanasia legislation.

  9. Thank god its in T.O. They deserve it.
    Now they can’t afford to keep all the transit lines going. Its a double wammy.
    All the immigrants who don’t work don’t contribute taxes and DON’T NEED TO RIDE TRANSIT.
    Ya got what ya deserve!!!
    Horny toad

  11. Reminds me of an incident my wife had while we were on vacation. She had to go to the manicure person on board to get some fingernail thing fixed. The woman was Jamaican. She asked my wife where she was from and she replied “near Toronto”.
    The woman looked at her horrified and said ” how can anyone live there with all that crime and all those shootings”?
    And by the way RC, Jamaicans make up a relatively small percentage of the Negroes in Toronto. Most of them come from the other islands like Barbados St. Lucia, St. Vincent and St. Maarten.

  12. Love that poster! it’s the youngest pic of Mickey I’ve ever seen, must be even pre Andy Hardy.

  13. Shame on you for all these racist comments. This man is a victim of an uncaring and vicious society. He has been failed by society at every turn. He is crying out for love and understanding.

  14. Beckford’s one attempt to change his ways involved briefly cutting back on his crack habit from $100 to $40 a day, said the judge.
    Jailed 20 times in 20 years, 60 criminal convictions, a refusal to work, an HIV menace, what more is there to review? In a rational world, a 15 minute review, then, his sorry butt would be yanked out of jail and driven to an airport.
    He can find plenty of crack in Kingston.

  15. Is his Jamaicanness at issue or his being an immigrant the issue. I would suggest an immigrant from anywhere with his attitude and record would be just as worthy of our scorn and derision.
    Of course, I would like to deport born Canadians with his record and attitude, but we are stuck with those.

  16. Kathy Shaidle: Just think of how much Jamaican immigrants contribute to our culture and economy: monotonous, illiterate music that all sounds the same, filthy hairstyles, those little tricoloured Rasta doohickies. Why is mocking Jamaican culture “racist”?…Jamaican culture stupid and ugly. You or other readers might say the same of Nascar redneck culture. So what? Oh I forgot, those people are white so its ok.
    No, Kathy, it’s still not ok. Both are racist. Criticize Canada’s immigration policy, justice system, or Mr. Beckford in whatever language you like. But rejecting political correctness does not give one license to indulge in bigoted stereotyping of an entire ethnic group — any ethnic group. You should retract your statements.

  17. A’dam, please point us to the “progressive” blog where you have scolded THEM for any racist, sexist, mysogynist, cultural or ethnic statements they have made…particulary about Westerners or Christians. Please just one. Okay?
    THEN, maybe your comment will hold some weight.

  18. Mistah Mickey – He dead.*
    …-
    [Hamas] Death Cult Mickey Beatdown
    (via LGF)
    *H/T Joseph Conrad

  19. A’dam:
    In that case Bob and Doug Mackenzie should apologize for stereotyping male white Canadians as beer swilling “hosers”.
    Discrimination!! Call in the human rights tribunal.
    This individual isn’t even making an effort.
    My brother-in-law originally hails from Jamaica and is self employed. He even occasionally jokes about his own culture.
    Evidently, lacking an appreciation of black farce!
    Kathy is wrong about four things:
    Jamaican beaches are reportedly some of the best in the world.
    Bob Marley wrote nice tunes.
    Blue Jamaican Coffee numbers among the best in the world. Starbucks can bite me!
    The Jamaican bobsled team gave winter sports new meaning!!
    Lighten up and live.

  20. So although not all Jamaicans are the same, there is a Jamaican culture. But because not all Jamaicans down to the last man are the same, that culture can’t be criticized?

  23. Hans Rupprecht, Mississauga Matt: Context is important. As dkjones pointed out above, why does it matter that Mr. Beckford is Jamaican? Do you believe that there’s something about Jamaican culture that explains Mr. Beckford’s antisocial and criminal record?
    A thought experiment: if every detail of this case were exactly the same, except that Mr. Beckford was of, say, English, descent, do you suppose that:
    1) Kate would have bothered to blog about it; and
    2) readers here would have used the post as an opportunity to make derisive comments about English culture?
    Eeyore: Just so I’m clear, are you taking issue with the fact that (in your impression) I only condemn racist comments here and not at “progressive” blogs, or that you think Kathy’s comments are, in fact, not racist and derogatory?

  24. A’nnoying
    Kathy’s comments are neither bigoted nor racist.
    They may be offensive to some but that’s the price one pays for living in a society that values the right to free expression.

  25. A’dam, you picked the wrong board to play the game of smearing the opinions of others that you don’t agree with as racist. Kathy owes no one an apology for her opinion of another culture. All cultures aren’t equal, some contribute more than others. Moral equivalency is a left construct not the reality.
    If I say that Arab/Islam is a sick and dysfunctonal culture/religion filled with marginal macho men and primitive behaviors, which is my opinion, you can call me racist too. I could care less.
    Your playing the outraged virtucrat isn’t any more impressive than Al Sharpton’s crying racism and trying to arbitrate free speech on the earlier thread.

  26. A’dam – Your argument, what little of it there is, happens to be a typicaly silly attempt at PC entrapment- why wouldn’t they blog about an Englishman- all those bad teeth etc – it would be just as funny and just as relevant. Please, your PC pieties are showing;)

  28. I believe any free thinking adult can see that political correctness is no more than a list of permissable bigotries accompanied by a list of those that are not.
    Of course this biased and often hate-fueled hypocracy is what the left considers equality and even more strangely…..morality.
    I see many conservatives here are not afraid to expose their racist bigotries(for slagging an entire culture over the actions of a few of it’s members is nothing less).
    When will the right try to mainstream and promote it’s bigotries formula,aka ‘political correctness’?
    And…what would the right call it?
    Right thinking?

  31. It is RACIST to NOT criticize a rotten culture. I believe they call it the racism of lower expectations. Accordingly, all hard-lefties are deeply racist.
    Bill Cosby and Spike Whathisname were not racist for excoriating the rotten nigger-gangsta-rap culture.
    Nor was it racist for me to the use the foreoing N word.

  32. This thread is a little uh, off track?
    Nothing is all Black or all white.
    Not all of Islands culture is ugly.
    The music is CERTAINLY not illiterate. In fact, the intricacy and variety of steelpan is totally the opposite of the poverty it comes out of.
    Lots of good people there as there are in every population.
    I*m not trying to attack anyone and their opinion. Just suggesting ease off a little.
    The point of the post still stands but total smear is never totally correct. = TG

  33. A’dam….you still haven’t pointed out just which “progressive” blogs you have scolded for racial comments, as eeyore asked. Typical leftie method. Until you do, you are nothing more than a twit troll. Oh my. Was that racist against trolls???

  35. It’s no secret, Jamaican gangs have been a problem in Toronto, that’s what they’re called because they’re from Jamaica, not from Switzerland or Grenada, but Jamaica. Gun violence of course is scary stuff in any community and extremely serious, goes along with the drug trade. Deportations are in order for any who are convicted. It’s not the way we live.
    Every time we have a shooting in Toronto, stunned beyond belief Mayor Miller calls for hand gun registry in a press conference, that’s it, that’s all till the next time.
    It’s not racist to mention their actions and lifestyles. Many are Rastafarians and are not materialistic but supposedly peaceful.
    The criminal element is a whole other story.
    A’**dam, how about you go do to yourself what Brian Mulroney, on Nation TV, told Peter C Newman to do.

  39. I did A’dam’s research for him. Jamaica has a big crime and drug problem, severe enough as per the World Bank to cut into its GDP, which doesn’t end with immigration if you examine crime statistics in Canada.
    http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070504/lead/lead1.html
    Obviously most Jamaicans aren’t involved in drugs and crime, but, in disproportionate numbers crime and drugs are a problem for them as a group.
    All of which is beside the point anyways. The real point is the perpetually offended little lefty virtucratic bores that read racism into any opinions they don’t like, PC hustlers, no different from Al Sharpton in the censorship tactics they employ.

  40. Sign. I wish the world’s Adams would read my post about the tiresome self-righteous liberal “Not all Xs are Ys, I’ll have you know!” rhetorical trope — which always reminds me of someone getting mad at the weatherman by yelling “The sky isn’t ALWAYS overcast, you know!!!”
    shaidle.blogmatrix.com/:entry:shaidle-2007-07-02-0001/
    I retract nothing and never will. Your PC worldview is one I don’t recognize, and its arbitrary rules do not apply to me.
    “I reject your reality, and substitute my own.”

  41. Girls, girls, please,Sorry,
    ** does not give one license to indulge in bigoted stereotyping of an entire ethnic group — any ethnic group. You should retract your statements.**
    But this is all he said. Prove it wrong and I*ll eat my shorts. = TG

  42. Blazingcatfur,
    I’m an average,everyday bigot,thank you.
    What kind do you consider yourself?
    My point being,I believe bigotry is a natural human condition.Where character enters the picture is in how we react to those feelings.Those self-righteous enough to claim they have no bigotries of any kind,to me,are f*cking liars,and are usually the first to try and define an entire group by the actions of a few or by pushing tired stereotypes.
    I just find it very funny that in the modern world of political blogsites,people waste so much time and energy trying to call out their opponents as bigotted,when they are obviously bigotted themselves.
    Partisanship born of bunkered us vs them mentalities and nurtured by groupthink blogsites is poisoning western culture.
    At least that’s what this one bigot thinks.

  43. Cultural commentary is not bigotry. If I said female circumcision was a disgusting cultural practice would that make me a racist? Muslims themselves protest this practice and describe it as a regional or ethnic practice as opposed to an Islamic practice.
    If I condemn the Jamaican community in Toronto for the well entrenched cultural practice of refusing to cooperate with Police and refusing to come forward to name the killers in their midst am I a bigot also?
    Cultural commentary is allowed to extend to all aspects of a society. I do not have to suspend the beliefs and values of my culture and society in the name of sparing others offense.

  44. TG, stereotyping an entire ethnic group based on the behaviour of a handful (since we obviously cannot possibly meet every single person who has every lived…) has taken place since the dawn of time, by both ordinary people, and by writers and thinkers far cleverer and more talented than you or Adam.
    In other words, this “stereotyping” (or if you like, conversational shorthand) was a completely acceptable way of talking and thinking all over the world, among every race (ask a Japanese person about Jews, blacks or whites sometime…) up until the time Experts and Academics began convincing gullible dopes that what ordinary people saw and experienced with their own lying eyes was invalid. Because it “wasn’t nice.”
    Alas, many foolish people go along with this Naked Emperor enterprise.
    That is not my problem.
    You are invited to read my blog post on this subject and see if you accept my argument. If you are an intelligent person, then you will. And at that point, then may I recommend briefs over boxers?

  45. Canadian Observer, my last post was not in answer to yours, I was just testing the rhetorical waters.
    I see your point and in fact believe we are all hard wired xenophobics – it’s simply part of the fight or flight mechanism. Political correctness is simply another stupid socialist attempt at social engineering.

  46. Can I just add here that the fact that the fellow pictured in Kate’s photoshopped poster actually convinced Ava Gardner to marry him, however briefly, is yet another argument for the repeal of the 19th Amendment…

  47. Partisanship born of bunkered us vs them mentalities and nurtured by groupthink blogsites is poisoning western culture.
    This is something I worry about a lot, in fact. But I’m convinced it’s entirely the left’s fault :). But joking aside, I DO worry about this.

  48. The terms Bigot and racist are used by the PC socialistic hordes to stifle debate that isn’t going according to their ideology.
    I think it is true, we are all bigots to some degree.

  49. @penny:
    Do you plan to do his homework for him too?
    [Side note: any legitimate request along that line will tend to raise hackles as of now because there are too many trollies around who blurt out gratuitous assertions and expect the respondant – the defendant – to do the heavy lifting in terms of assuming the burden of any proof. Any rancor raised by such requests is likely due to prior experience of the burdensome consequence of loudmouth laziness. I’ve faced it several times previously.]

  50. A’dam, just so you’re clear, I am taking issue with the fact that (in my impression) you only condemn racist comments here and not at “progressive” blogs.
    Prejudice is judging before meeting. Racism is discriminating on the basis of race. I am fairly certain that Kathy is not “discriminating” solely on the basis of the fact that they were born in Jamaica or that they are black…if they were born in Jamaica or were black and NOT prone to violence, she wouldn’t be criticizing them. Notice she’s not complaining about Zimbabweans or South Africans or Trinidadians or Bermudans or the like…just Jamaicans who can be shown to be involved in a statistically significant number of the cases of violence in Toronto.
    I’m fairly certain YOU don’t like Conservatives and I strongly suspect that you ascribe negative characteristics to them…you are as guilty as Kathy. You just happen to not voice your displeasure against an identified “victim” group.
    I tend to agree with Canadian Observer, though I don’t call it racism…I think that Blazingcatfur’s xenophobic term is more accurate.
    It’s way too difficult to keep qualifying all your remarks with “Studies show that a statistically significant number of Jamaicans are…” when you can more easily say “Jamaicans are…”.

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